PSYC 328 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Graduate School, Psychosomatic Medicine, Biopsychosocial Model
13 Sep 2016
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Health psychology: understanding psychological influence on: how people stay healthy, why they become ill, how they respond when they get ill. Health psychologists study such issues and promote interventions to help people stay well/get over their illness. Health psychologists are concerned with all aspects of health and illness across the lifespan. Definition of health: world health organization (1948): complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity , achievement involving balance among physical, mental and social well-being, interchangeable with wellness . Goals of health psychology: health promotion and maintenance, psychological aspects of the prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlated of health, illness and dysfunction. Interested in the behavioral and social factors that contribute to health or illness and dysfunction, factors that can include health habits: impact of health institutions and health professionals on people"s behavior and develop recommendations fro improving health care.
